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the left were the finer deposits of the same waters which left 
behind them those coarse Conglomerate beds which may be seen 
resting on the Carboniferous Limestone of the Avon Gorge, and 
everywhere on the flanks of the Mendip Hills. While the 
Conglomerate in some places was deposited in shallow water and 
consisted of larger pebbles, the débris of the old seashore of the 
period ; the deposit which fringes the Coast line here is much 
finer and the pebbles very small and almost imperceptible in 
some places, showing that it was laid down in much deeper 
waters and further from the Coast line of the period. The 
Beach on which they were standing was composed of the Red 
and Greenish Grey pebbles of the Old Red Sandstone cliffs. 
before them with some of the softer pebbles of the Magnesian 
Limestones. 
The carriages now drove Members to Clevedon Court through 
the picturesque gap in Dial Hill, to the other side of the Gordano 
Valley, passing Walton Castle on the left. Clevedon Court is 
situated in a most charming locality, sheltered from the cold 
winds by the lofty hill at the back, and with a beautiful view 
over the Valley in the front, a situation where all delicate plants 
would have a chance of surviving an English winter. 
Sir Edmund Elton most cordially received the Members in the 
beautiful Old 14th Century Hall. This Room, and its surround- 
ings, is the oldest part of the House; now it is covered by a 
ceiling, but formerly the open-timbered roof showed signs of where 
the smoke used to escape, when the fire was in the centre of the 
Hall, before the fireplace was in its present position. Such an 
interesting account of Clevedon Court has been written by Sir 
_ Arthur Elton in the Somerset Proceedings of 1881 that it would 
be useless to give a detailed description of this beautiful place, 
but the charm of the residence is that in the old Hall and 
surroundings one is able to imagine, to a certain extent, the 
civilization of the Edwardian Period, and there are not many 
instances in which this can be studied in the form of an unfortified 
